EXCLUSIVE AARLander HOI3 Preview - Part I (of 3)

[unmerged(139217)]

Great preview, really makes me wanna play this game. Im very keen on your sights of the ai.

 

[Alojzius Pend.]

The best preview on web so far. Good Job. OH how much I envy You Mr. Singleton. I will probably have to wait till September for release in Poland ...

 

[Thomas Kenobi]

Very glad you decided to write this. Looking forward to the 27th.

 

[snoopy1710]

Is SP-Arty not in there any more?

Snoopy

 

[Spoony]

Thank you Singelton. That was quite refreshing

 

[unmerged(123225)]

This is better than the DDs. Hope the next one is just as good if not better. Thanks!

 

[PIT_AMERO]

Nice preview Singleton.
Thanks a lot, it was really well written and giving a lot of interesting "gamer experience" information.

 

[6354201]

Very nice work!

 

[unmerged(87984)]

Thanks for this interesting preview

National Guard template?

Uh, could someone explain?

Are these Elite units? Or more like militia (Home Guard?)

Most likely some template using militia brigades.

 

[Myth]

Yay for in-depth stuffs! I like. How frequently will you post your previews? One a day till the weekend, or stretch it out a bit?

 

[Van Diemen]

What I missed on the map were the Urban-areas. There are some in Western Europe and Great-Britain but they are lacking in such profound places as Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow. Even NYC isn't an urban area. I sure hope this will be mended before release.

I do hope that this gets resolved. In HoI2 Paradox didn't made Paris an urban area. They had a good reason for Paris, as during WW2 it was never really attacked and defended properly (luckily, as one of the greatest cities on earth would have been destroyed). However if they don't include Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad as urban areas that would be outright wrong, especially now with the much expanded and more detailed map! I do hope that they will remedy this, it's probably just altering a single line in one of the files.

 

[Alexander Seil]

No one asked yet - how is terrain handled? Is it like in HoI2 or like in EU3?

 

[PIT_AMERO]

I wonder, can we convert militia to infantry?

 

[unmerged(1823)]

No one asked yet - how is terrain handled? Is it like in HoI2 or like in EU3?

1 province = 1 terrain.

 

[dublish]

I don't want to wait until Saturday for the next part.

 

[hendriks]

I do hope that this gets resolved. In HoI2 Paradox didn't made Paris an urban area. They had a good reason for Paris, as during WW2 it was never really attacked and defended properly (luckily, as one of the greatest cities on earth would have been destroyed). However if they don't include Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad as urban areas that would be outright wrong, especially now with the much expanded and more detailed map! I do hope that they will remedy this, it's probably just altering a single line in one of the files.

Second that strongly! With the provinces being far smaller, many more areas should be urban.

 

[Rush]

Nice preview.

PS: And how about rivers "inside" provinces? How the combat penalties will apply?

 

[King]

Thanks for this interesting preview




Most likely some template using militia brigades.

NG divisions were origianlly square (4 regement) divisions. As opposed to the triangular (3 regement) set up for the regular army.

 

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I do hope that this gets resolved. In HoI2 Paradox didn't made Paris an urban area. They had a good reason for Paris, as during WW2 it was never really attacked and defended properly (luckily, as one of the greatest cities on earth would have been destroyed). However if they don't include Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad as urban areas that would be outright wrong, especially now with the much expanded and more detailed map! I do hope that they will remedy this, it's probably just altering a single line in one of the files.

I 3th that.

However i believe this question has been brought up on a DD in the past, and the developers said this will be changed before the release (wich it should).

In HoI2 many mods allready converted several non-urban regions into urbans, just for the idea that you captured "that" certain place and ofcourse to give defenders a higher defending rate, but that often looked a bit silly since you also captured hunders of miles of open landscape arround it (considering the size of some regions in Hoi2).

With the great increasement of regions it should be much easier and realistic to also add much more urban places, and creating the effect that you rather encircle such a place instead of going for a direct assault.

I just hate to see Tokyo being a flat plain when im going for operation Downfall to give one example.

 

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1 province = 1 terrain.

Wait a minute... So how is it? The most dominant terrain type is determining province? And what about forest with hills - is it a separated terrain like wooded hills?
I thought that its some kind of mix with all that terrain types etc like 20% forest 30% clear and 50% urban ...